Topics of Concern | Representative Themes |
Barriers/Challenges to Prevention of Childhood Obesity | ・Lack of knowledge about the prevention of childhood obesity during early childhood |
・Caregivers’ perceptions of parents’ attitudes toward children’s lifestyles and discipline for their children | |
・Insufficient training of providers on health promotion topics | |
・Lack of communication with parents and child care providers by health and medical professionals | |
・Lack of communication between caregivers and parents about healthy lifestyles for children | |
Potentially Successful Strategies for Prevention of Childhood Obesity | ・Measures to predict future changes in the children’s current body size |
・Techniques to determine whether the children’s body mass could predict the onset of illness in the future. | |
・Free web sites that parents can access to check their children’s body size and predicted future build | |
・Experiences such as growing vegetables to interest children in healthy foods and food preparation | |
・Family-based programs to make learning about health a pleasure | |
・Cooperation between child care providers and public health nurses for health promotion and prevention of childhood obesity |